Romney campaigner Pat Robertson tells man to beat his wife

Source: America Blog

Mitt Romney spent Saturday campaigning with religious right extremist Pat Robertson. Romney was using Robertson to "prove" that he's a "real" Christian.

Which is ironic, since most would question Robertson's claim to speak for Christianity. (It also makes you wonder what Mitt Romney thinks a real Christian is - if he thinks Pat Robertson is God's messenger.) Here's Mitt and Pat together at an event this weekend.

Yesterday, fresh off of campaigning with Mitt Romney just 48 hours before, Pat Robertson told a caller to his TV show to beat his wife. Via Right Wing Watch:

For example, today on the 700 Club’s “Bring It On” segment where viewers ask Robertson questions, one man wondered how he should go about repairing his marriage with a wife who “insults” him and once tried to attack him.

“Well, you could become a Muslim and you could beat her,” Robertson responded. “This man’s got to stand up to her and he can’t let her get away with this stuff,” Robertson continued, “I don’t think we condone wife-beating these days but something has got to be done.”

He later said the woman is a “rebellious child” and pondered if she has psychological problems. Robertson told the viewer that since he “can’t divorce her according to the Scripture, so I say: move to Saudi Arabia.”
Robertson's network has now censored the broadcast, but fortunately Right Wing Watch got it first:

6. Gee's

So this is what I would have to look forward to if these bastards win? How could any woman in their right mind vote for these people?!! I am going to show this to my mom and my sister who are planning on voting for Rmoney but I know what their response is going to be already - He just had his words twisted by the liberal media honey... err!!!

16. “can’t divorce her according to the Scripture"

EXCEPT if she has Altzheimer's, right Pat?

Televangelist Pat Robertson ignited yet another firestorm this week when he suggested on his program that divorce is an acceptable solution for a husband debating whether to stay with a wife who has Alzheimer's disease because the disease is like "a kind of death."